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*[http://digital.lib.uh.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p15195coll29&CISOPTR=18 Photograph of the Headquarters of the Madras Volunteer Guards] University of Houston Library
*[http://digital.lib.uh.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p15195coll29&CISOPTR=18 Photograph of the Headquarters of the Madras Volunteer Guards] University of Houston Library


===Historical books online===
'''Restricted''' availability only. Appear to be available in North America
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fVx7uAAACAAJ ''A Short History of the Madras Volunteer Guards, from 1857, the Date of Formation, to 1883''] by Robert Coombes 1883 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=BI3sGwAACAAJ ''A Short History of the Madras Volunteer Guards: From 1857, the Date of Formation, to 1907, the Jubilee Year of the Corps'']  by James Robert Coombes 1907 Google Books


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Revision as of 18:45, 21 August 2020

Originally raised as the Madras Volunteer Guards on the 2nd July 1857 and became the 1st Madras Guards on the 1st April 1917. Became the Madras Guards on the 1st October 1920.

  • Uniform - Blue
  • Facings - Scarlet
  • Badge - Royal arms within a garter with a crown over it and motto underneath
  • Motto - "Ready aye Ready"

British Library holdings

  • A Short History of the Madras Volunteer Guards: From 1857, the Date of Formation, to 1907, the Jubilee Year of the Corps by James Robert Coombes 1907. There is restricted online availablity, refer below.

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